European Athletics Championships 1971/4 × 400 m women

10th European Athletics Championships
discipline	4 × 400 m relay of women
city	Helsinki
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Participants	10 relays with 40 athletes
Competition phase	August 14th (preliminary) August 15th (final)
Medalists
gold	GDR
silver	BR Germany
bronze	Soviet Union

The Olympic Stadium of Helsinki in 2005

The 4-by-400-meter relay team of women at the 1971 European Athletics Championships was on 14 and 15 August 1971 at the Olympic Stadium of Helsinki held.

The GDR became European champions with the cast of Rita Kühne , Ingelore Lohse , Helga Seidler and Monika Zehre . The relay set a new world record and was the first team to run this distance under 3:30 minutes. Second place went to the Federal Republic of Germany with Anette Rückes , Christel Frese , Hildegard Falck and Inge Bödding . Bronze went to the USSR (Raissa Nikanorowa, Wera Popkowa , Nadeschda Kolesnikowa , Natalja Tschistjakowa ).

Note on the times

At these European Championships, the times were officially given, as was customary in the past, in values ​​rounded to tenths of a second. However, it is based on the electronic measurements, the exact hundredths of which are known and listed in the results lists of the sources. With the distances from the middle distances upwards and also in the 4 x 400 meter relay, the differences to the officially rounded values ​​to tenths of a second do not often play the decisive role as on the sprint courses . Therefore, only the exact times are listed in the following summary of results.

Records

In contrast to the note on the time information above, there is a difference in the records with regard to the official records specified in tenths of a second and the unofficial records listed exactly in hundredths of a second. Therefore both versions are given here.

Official records - given in tenths of a second

Existing records

World record	3: 30.8 min	Great Britain ( Rosemary Stirling , Pat Lowe , Janet Simpson , Lillian Board )	EM Athens , Greece	20th September 1969
		France (Bernadette Martin, Nicole Duclos , Eliane Jacq, Colette Besson )
European record		Great Britain ( Rosemary Stirling , Pat Lowe , Janet Simpson , Lillian Board )
		France (Bernadette Martin, Nicole Duclos , Eliane Jacq, Colette Besson )
EM record		Great Britain ( Rosemary Stirling , Pat Lowe , Janet Simpson , Lillian Board )
		France (Bernadette Martin, Nicole Duclos , Eliane Jacq, Colette Besson )

Record improvement

The winning season of the GDR ( Rita Kühne , Ingelore Lohse , Helga Seidler , Monika Zehrt ) improved the existing championship record in the final on August 15 by 1.5 to 3: 29.3 minutes.
This time was also a new world record and the first performance of a four-by-400-meter relay for women under three and a half minutes.

Electronically measured records

Existing records

World record	3: 30.82 min	Great Britain ( Rosemary Stirling , Pat Lowe , Janet Simpson , Lillian Board )	EM Athens , Greece	20th September 1969
European record
EM record

Record improvement

The winning season of the GDR ( Rita Kühne , Ingelore Lohse , Helga Seidler , Monika Zehrt ) improved the existing championship record in the final on August 15 by 1.54 to 3: 29.28 minutes.
This time was also a new world record and the first performance of a four-by-400-meter relay for women under three and a half minutes.

Preliminary round

August 14, 1971

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first four seasons per run - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Season	occupation	Time (min)
1	BR Germany	Anette Rückes Christel Frese Hildegard Falck Inge Bödding	3: 34.7
2	Great Britain	Verona Bernard Pat Lowe Jannette Roscoe Rosemary Stirling	3: 35.0
3	Soviet Union	Vera Popkowa Nadezhda Kolesnikova Raissa Nikanorowa Natalja Tschistjakowa	3: 35.6
4th	Sweden	Lotta Malmström Ann Larsson Elisabeth Randerz Karin Lundgren	3: 37.2
5	Austria	Gerlinde Massing Karoline Käfer Sonja Termoth Maria Sykora	3: 40.8 NO

Forward 2

space	Season	occupation	Time (min)
1	GDR	Rita Kühne Ingelore Lohse Helga Seidler Monika Zehrt	3: 34.2
2	France	Monique Noirot Nicole Duclos Bernadette Martin Colette Besson	3: 35.6
3	Poland	Bozena Zientarska Elżbieta Skowrońska Danuta Pieczyk Krystyna Hryniewicka	3: 37.5
4th	Finland	Mona-Lisa Strandvall Riitta Salin Ruth Lindfors Marika Eklund	3: 41.2
5	Bulgaria	Iwanka Wenkowa Stefka Jordanowa Tonka Petrowa Svetla Slatewa	3: 43.3

final

15th August 1971

space	Season	occupation	Time (min)
1	GDR	Rita Kühne Ingelore Lohse Helga Seidler Monika Zehrt	3: 29.28 WR
2	BR Germany	Anette Rückes Christel Frese Hildegard Falck Inge Bödding	3: 33.04
3	Soviet Union	Raissa Nikanorowa Vera Popkowa Nadeschda Kolesnikowa Natalja Tschistjakowa	3: 34.11
4th	Great Britain	Verona Bernard Pat Lowe Jannette Roscoe Rosemary Stirling	3: 34.52
5	Poland	Bozena Zientarska Elżbieta Skowrońska Danuta Pieczyk Krystyna Hryniewicka	3: 35.28
6th	Sweden	Lotta Malmström Ann Larsson Elisabeth Randerz Karin Lundgren	3: 37.09
7th	Finland	Mona-Lisa Strandvall Riitta Salin Ruth Lindfors Marika Eklund	3: 37.21
DNF	France	Monique Noirot Nicole Duclos Bernadette Martin Colette Besson	Nicole Duclos lost his staff

Web links

• Women 4x400m Relay European Championship 1971 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed July 5, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1971 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed July 5, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 4x400m Relay European Championship 1971 Helsinki, p. 419f (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on July 5, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1971, 4 × 400 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on July 5, 2019
• 10th European Athletics Championships 1971 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on July 5, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF world records. 4 × 400 m , accessed on July 5, 2019
2. ↑ ^{a b} European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 4x400m Relay European Championship 1969 Athens, p. 411f (PDF, 13,363 kB), Spanish / English at european-athletics.org, accessed on June 15, 2019